Caring for Your Soul in the Next Thirty Days

I attended a "Soul Care" retreat at Skycroft last Thursday and Friday. This was a way for me to meaningfully launch my sabbath and leverage life to its fullest over the next thirty days. We are all in the One Month to Live campaign together at Emmanuel so I thought sharing a few of the insights gained at Soul Care may help you also.

1. Life is about being not doing. We are so busy doing and going that we often walk right past God and forget to sit with him for a while. What lessons have we missed because we walked past where God was waiting on us? Take time to sit with God each morning. Try fifteen minutes of prayer and meditation. It will make a huge difference!

2. Sometimes the most spirtual thing we can do is sleep. No, really, think about it. God has designed us so that once every twenty four hours we have to shut down and trust Him to run the world while we are sleeping! What if we could learn to trust and rest in Him as much during our waking hours?

3. We must move from acting to bring about our desired results to being acted upon by God so He can transform us into the actual image of Christ for the sake of others.

4. God has designed some doorways to His blessings so that the only way we can get there is on our knees or sometimes flat on our face! We need to embrace humility and not fear failure. They are the only things that can put us in the right posture for God's greatest blessings!

Well, that's all for now. Please share your thoughts with me and let's navigate life together!